The Ethnocentrism Index
 
Ethnocentrism index: the percentage of one's posts that are preoccupied with one's ethnic issues, interests, needs, conflicts, grievances and enemies.
 
Militant ethnocentrists tend to strongly polarize the entire world -- all ethnic outsiders -- against themselves.
 
Militant ethnocentrists are trapped in an infinite negative feedback loop with the rest of the world: the more they complain about their ethnic enemies, the more ethnic enemies they make.
 
Some varieties of ethnocentrism:
 
African-American ethnocentrism
Anglo-Saxon ethnocentrism
Arab ethnocentrism
Austrian ethnocentrism
Chinese ethnocentrism
Cuban ethnocentrism
Czech ethnocentrism
Egyptian ethnocentrism
European ethnocentrism
Finnish ethnocentrism
German ethnocentrism
Greek ethnocentrism
Indian ethnocentrism
Iranian ethnocentrism
Irish ethnocentrism
Italian ethnocentrism
Japanese ethnocentrism
Jewish ethnocentrism
Korean ethnocentrism
Mexican ethnocentrism
Pakistani ethnocentrism
Polish ethnocentrism
Romanian ethnocentrism
Russian ethnocentrism
Scottish ethnocentrism
Swedish ethnocentrism
Swiss ethnocentrism
Syrian ethnocentrism
Ukrainian ethnocentrism
 
Areas for useful analysis:
 
Which users in a given forum rank highest on the ethnocentrism index?
 
Which ethnic groups in a given forum rank highest on the ethnocentrism index?
 
Which users in a given forum are agitating most conspicuously for the interests of a foreign nation, based on their ethnic loyalties?
 
After flagging posts for ethnocentrism, all of the above data can easily be summarized and viewed as graphs or tag clouds.
 
The entire Usenet and all Internet discussion forums as a whole can be treated as a database for the analysis of ethnocentrism in American and world politics.
 
The person who jumps the highest when ethnocentrism is criticized is usually the maximal ethnocentrist.
 
Obsessive ethnocentrism is arguably one of the world's most dangerous mental diseases.
The ethnic group with the worst case of ethnocentrism obsessive-compulsive disorder will usually be the political group that is most in violent conflict with the rest of the world.  Ethnocentrism -- particularly messianic ethnocentrism -- breeds endless ugly ethnic holy wars.
 


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